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[[File:s_VoiceHis Master's Voice.jpg|framethumb|400px|His Master's Voice]]
 
 
It is common in all forms of animation, as well as in [[Real Life]], for a character to tilt his head sideways in confusion. In anime this is often accompanied by a "...", while in western animation it is more often accompanied by a "...huh?". A raised eyebrow is common in every genre.
 
Common in [[Animal Reaction Shot|Animal Reaction Shots]]s, especially with dogs (although [[All Animals Are Dogs|animals who behave like dogs]] may do it too), accompanied by a Quizzical (or [[Even the Dog Is Ashamed|Disapproving]]) Whimper.
 
Related to [[Head-Tiltingly Kinky]] and [[Fascinating Eyebrow]].
 
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* The old RCA Victor ad had a dog with its head tilted quizzically as it listened to a phonograph record play, with the title "[[media:HisMastersVoiceSign.jpg|His Master's Voice]]".
** The famous trademark image comes from [[wikipedia:His Masterchr(27)Master's Voice|a painting by English artist Francis Barraud, A.R.A. and titled His Master's Voice]], which provides this page's image. The original title of the painting was "His Late Master's Voice" (and this phrase appears on many of the original RCA Victor labels), but the concept was considered too depressing for most of the public's tastes, and certainly for an image used as a means to put the consumer in the mood to buy. It was acquired from the artist in 1899 by the newly-formed Gramophone Company.
** The logo remains in use today by the British music store HMV, whose name is an acronym of the slogan.
 
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Idiot Hero|Luffy]] from ''[[One Piece]]'' is incredibly fond of this, tilting his head whenever something even mildly puzzling occurs. Don't know which direction is south?
{{quote| "Hm...." [ quizzical head tilt ] "That way's warm, so it's south!"}}
* Those creepy-cute [[wikipedia:Kodama chr(28)spiritchr(29spirit)|tree spirits (kodama)]] from ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'' are very much this.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Osaka]] of ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]'' does this.
* Nia in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' does this when she sees Lagann in a garbage heap.
* In [[Durarara!!]] [[Cute Monster Girl|Celty]] and [[The Berserker|Shizuo]] do a simultaneous version, which A) goes to show their [[Like Brother and Sister]] bond, and B) [http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/I_am_Latia/drrrceltyshizzyheadtilt-1.gif is absolutely adorable.]
* Used by Yuki in ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' when Haruhi tells to use her "magic powers" to zap Mikuru during the production of their student film. Considering how Yuki is the epitome of the [[Emotionless Girl]], this is her equivalent of a stunned gasp (particularly how she does have {{spoiler|reality-warping powers of her own}}).
* Naruto from his own show [[Naruto]] does slight head tilts early on in the show when he didn't understand a concept or wasn't familiar with something (which, being Naruto, happened quite a bit). An example is when he first heard of the Chuunin Exams from Konohamaru.
 
== [[Fan FictionWorks]] ==
* Used several times in ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic)|Kyon Big Damn Hero]]'':
** Tsuruya when Kyon received a greatcoat as a gift from Mikuru, and realized it's the same coat she saw him wearing [[Time Travel|some weeks ago]].
** Mikuru when Haruhi is explaining her plan {{spoiler|for a type 2 [[Tenchi Solution]] with Kyon and the girls in the brigade}}.
* Observed as an intriguing, if foreign, gesture that humans often do in the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' fic, ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7278544/1/First_Contact ''First Contact.]'']. The fact that it's almost ubiquitous amongstamong both dogs and humans is just one of many things that drives home the fascinating dynamic humanity has with [[Loyal Animal Companion|dogs and cats]] (to the point of major coevolution that [[Undying Loyalty|continues to this day)]].
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Wild Wild West (Filmfilm)|Wild Wild West]]'': A "blink and you'll miss it" [[Shout-Out]] occurred when "Bloodbath" McGrath was lying on the ground and a dog came up and did the "His Master's Voice" bit while looking at McGrath's ear trumpet.
* ''[[Starman (Filmfilm)|Starman]]'' had [[Jeff Bridges]] tilt his head quizzically for most of the movie -- butmovie—but that's because he was a non-human life form from outer space learning about the human experience as he went along, so everything was new and confusing to him.
* ''[[The Fifth Element]]'': Leeloo gives a tilt of her head to the Major before breaking out of her unbreakable container and taking from him the key to opening it.
* Detective Hoffman does this towards Strahm in the glass box in ''[[Saw|Saw V]]''
* In ''[[Halloween (Filmfilm)|Halloween]]'' Michael Myers does this when examining some of his victims.
* Jason Voorhees does this twice in ''[[Friday the 13th (Filmfilm)|Friday the 13 th]]'' series. First in ''Part VI'' when he sees an [[Auto Erotica]] going on and in ''Part VIII'' when he sees a billboard for a hockey league which features a hockey mask similar to his.
* In ''[[The Mask (Filmfilm)|The Mask]]'', Stanley's dog Milo does this the first time Stanley turns into the title character.
* ''[[Star Wars]]: Return of the Jedi'' - the Ewok whom Princess Leia befriends headtilts at her when she tries to talk to him.
** The child actor ([[Warwick Davis]], in fact) who played the Ewok stated that he purposefully modeled this behavior from his own pet pooch.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* [[Star Trek|Spock]] made considerable use of this, as well as the [[Fascinating Eyebrow]] (and sometimes both at once).
** [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation|Data]] quizzically tilted his head every ten seconds or so.
* There's an episode of ''[[Will and Grace]]'' where Jack says 'reluctant pivot, inquisitive head tilt' as response to Will.
* In ''[[Supernatural]]'', this is Castiel's typical reaction to Dean (or others) not making sense from his angelic perspective. I think he's patented his version, actually.
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* A very common gesture of ''[[The Man From Atlantis]]''.
* [[The Sarah Connor Chronicles|Cameron]] does this. A ''lot''.
* Illyria on 'Angel' seems to be doing this the entire damn time.
* Kurt from ''[[Glee]]'' is good at these, but they tend to be somewhat less inquisitive and somewhat more interrogative. As in "we-have-ways-of-making-you-talk" interrogative. Especially when the frosty eyebrow lift and serial killer [[Death Glare]] get in on the act.
 
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* [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]] has done this. Though it's usually accompanied with getting your ass kicked.
** He would also say it during interviews or when one of his promos were interrupted, usually followed by...
{{quote| '''Rock''': ...and just who in the ''blue hell'' are '''you'''?}}
* [[Wrestler/Kane (wrestling)|Kane]] did this back when he wore a mask and didn't have a voice, probably borrowed from Michael Myers of ''Halloween''.
 
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Mass Effect]] 2'' includes a particularly good scene where Joker does this after EDI cracks a hilarious, albeit very poorly timed, joke.
* Emperor Palpatine hilariously does this when accessing Imperial security panels in [[Lego Star Wars]].
* In ''[[Kingdom HeartscodedHearts (Video Game)|Kingdom Heartscodedcoded]]'', Data-Sora, Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and Jiminy all perform one together as {{spoiler|Data-Riku}} explains the nature of his existence.
* Emil Castagnier of ''[[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]'' tends to do this a lot as well.
 
 
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* Doki does this in ''[[There She Is]]'' when Nabi tries to explain that interspecies relationships don't work.
* [[Cute Overload]] calls this the "baroo", after the sound dogs (supposedly) make along with it.
* a disproportionate amount of [[Slender Man Mythos|Slenderman-related media]] portrays him as having his head habitually tilted to one side.
* When [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Linkara]] joined [[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] to review ''[[Superman (Filmfilm)|Superman IV]]'' this was his reaction to Supes' "repair The Great Wall of China vision".
{{quote| '''Nostalgia Critic:''' Does Superman have wall repairing ability? <br />
'''Linkara:''' <quizzical tilt> ...not in any comic I've read }}
* The standard problem-solving method used by [http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/07/dog.html The Simple Dog] in ''[[Hyperbole and Aa Half]]''. {{spoiler|It doesn't work.}}
* On the vlog [[Vlog Brothers]], Hank composes a song from weird noises sent in by [[Fan Community Nicknames|nerdfighters]] to get his brother's dog to tilt quizically. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQxpgSuaiz4 It works]
 
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'', "Sweet and Sour Marge":
{{quote| '''Marge:''' Don't you have any sense of corporate responsibility?<br />
'''Garth Motherloving:''' [tilts head, confused puppy-dog whimpers]<br />
'''Marge:''' Hey! [claps twice, and Garth snaps back to attention] }}
* Kitty from ''[[South Park]]'' has done this.
* In ''[[The Thief and The Cobbler (Animation)|The Thief and Thethe Cobbler]]'', there's a scene where Tak and Princess Yum Yum do this to each other for several seconds.
 
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